Colorado holds lotto to help underprivileged children pay for private schools

By staff and wire services reports

June 28th, 2011

Douglas County School District officials say their controversial pilot scholarship is going to move forward until a court orders it to stop, the Huffington Post reports. The day after two lawsuits were filed, by three civil liberties unions on behalf of a group of parents and Taxpayers for Public Education a few hours later, the Douglas County voucher program held its scholarship lottery to help students afford choices outside of the public school system…